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Seaview Terrace, Ecology Report

2.2.4 Referrable Areas Mapping

The Integrated Planning Regulation 1998 defines a wetland as “an area shown as a
wetland on ‘Map of referable wetlands’, a document approved by the chief executive
‘(environment)’.

Development triggers for wetlands as listed in Schedule 2 of the Integrated Planning
Regulation 1998 include:

e Reconfiguring a lot if -
© any part of the lot is situated in, or within 100m of, a wetland; and
0 the reconfiguration results in more than 10 lots being created, or any
lot resulting from the reconfiguring is less than Sha.
© Material change of use, other than for a domestic activity, if any part of the lot is
situated in, or within 100m of, a wetland

The EPA (2009) has mapped the site as almost entirely containing a referrable wetland.
(Appendix C). The referable wetland is surrounded.-by a 100m buffer.

With regard to the Regional Ecosystems mapped on site by the Queensland Herbarium’
CEPA, 2003), the Regional Ecosystem Description Database (REDD) (EPA, 2004) notes
the RE 12.2.5 is “Corymbia spp., Banksia integrifolia, Callitris columellaris, Acacia spp.
open forest to low closed forest on beach ridges usually in southern half of bioregion” and
RE 12.2.15 is described as “Swamps with Baumea spp., Juncus spp. and Lepironia
articulata”.

2.3 LOCAL INVESTIGATIONS |
2.3.1 Noosa Planning Scheme
Under the Noosa Plan (2008) the site is mapped on:

e Eastern Beaches Zone Map as part rural settlement and part open space protection
zone;

e Eastern Beaches Biodiversity Overlay OM4.1. The site is partially mapped as
“Environmental Enhancement Zone”. The specific outcome for areas mapped as
“Environmental Enhancement vegetation” is:

Vegetation of local origin on premises identified as Environmental Enhancement 12
is protected from the impacts of development, edge effects, and fragmentation by
being maintained in manageable and viable configurations; OR Interference with
vegetation on land committed for development only occurs where—

a. no other suitable cleared or partially cleared area is available on the

premises; and

 

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